Quotes About Willpower

We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

I was just saying, "Now I lay me," when I was seized by a determination to try yet once more, so that no one of the prophets of evil I had left behind me could say, "I told you so.

being stubborn is not a bad thing, it shows determination.

Estamos sujetos al destino solo si elegimos permitir que las voluntades de los demás den forma a nuestras vidas.

insistence that

The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but some part of her, as she observed with a certain dazed detachment, was too pigheaded to give up. No,she would plod on likely to the ends of the earth, slipping and sliding, gasping and groaning, until either the river won or she did.Had she been inclined to wager, she would have bet on the river.

Stubbornness is one of my few virtues.

La juventud muere cuando muere su voluntad de seducción.

Sólo yo entiendo lo lejos que está el cielo de nosotros; pero conozco cómo acortar las veredas. Todo consiste en morir, Dios mediante, cuando uno quiera y no cuando Él lo disponga. O, si tú quieres, forzarlo a disponer antes de tiempo.

There was no room to ask whether he could do it or not. He had to.

Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It's more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I'll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I'll feel worse.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

A]ber eigentlich ist doch gerade ein starker Wille das Markenzeichen des schwachen Menschen. Denn als solcher muss er ständig etwas wollen. Er muss wirken und werken, probieren und trainieren, derweil dem Starken alles wie von selbst gelingt.

Wenn er jetzt einen Herzanfall bekam, hatte Kron erreicht, was er wollte; also würde er keinen Herzanfall bekommen. Kron keinen Gefallen zu tun war ein guter Grund, am Leben zu bleiben.

I think it better for me to do A than B, but am led by anger, or some other emotion, to do B instead.

How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing? Until we have some systematic way of understanding this, we and the way we act are mysterious to ourselves.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed in the power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly, the power of the will. Frankly, he saw no reason why love should be an involuntary thing. If he didn't want to fall in love, then by damn, he wasn't going to. It was as simple as that. Ithad to be as simple as that.

According to me, Indian players have a lot of will-power and this ability to learn will definitely put them on the right track. One day the Indians will jump to the European levels and to the levels that count.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

While initially I would crave food late at night, I worked hard on it and now my body has accepted the new change. I don't follow any diet, I just don't eat anything between 7 pm-12 pm.

I fought Swanson when I was injured and I shouldn't have but I wanted to.